A far-right extremist was on Wednesday sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of release for murdering British MP Jo Cox a week before Britain's EU referendum in a "politically motivated" attack.

People walk on a black sanded beach in Vik, Iceland, near the Volcano Katla, Oct. 26. Katla Volcano has helped turn sleepy Vik, a community of 300 people some 180 kilometers east of the capital, Reykjavik, into a tourism hotspot.

Following a public outcry, Turkey's government has withdrawn a proposal that critics said would have allowed men accused of sexually abusing underage girls to go free if they were married to their victims.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said it would be "inappropriate" to ask who was the more barbarous out of Israel and Hitler, in comments likely to put renewed strain on ties with the Jewish state.